Programme

Day One: Wednesday, 27 September 2023

•    Welcome and Opening Remarks

•    Overview of ICRP work/perspective to address the implementation of the optimisation process in the radiological protection system
Thierry Schneider, Director CEPN, ICRP Committee 4 Chair 

•    Regulator perspective on broadening optimisation for planned exposures
Andy Mayall, Manager New & Operational Sites, UK Environment Agency 

•    Imbalanced implementation of ICRP recommendations, a Canadian perspective and its impact
Sorouche Mirmiran, Director Regulatory Affairs, Canadian Nuclear Association 

•    Lessons learnt from Fukushima regarding the application of optimization based on All-hazards approach
Taichiro Arahatra, Manager, London office TEPCO 

•    Discussion and Q&A 

•    NORM and U mining – focussing on how mining sites tend to implement RP in practice
 Jim Hondros, Mining Industry Expert 

•    Operators' perspective, reactor cavity cleaning after an outage: dose rate, surface contamination, airborne contamination, heat stress, FME, conventional industrial safety, etc
Marcel Lips, Deputy Plant Manager, Kernkraftwerk Goesgen-Daeniken 

•    Consideration of radiological and non-radiological hazards in determining emergency fire response capability (Emergency Situation)
James Burrows, Emergency Preparedness Lead, EDF Energy

•    Recovery following drop of flask in a fuel pond
Joseph Taylor, Head of Radiological Protection, EDF Energy

•    Discussion and Q&A 

•    Practical application of environmental optimisation including radiation protection in design of new nuclear power stations (planned exposure situation)
Phil Kruse, Environmental Technical Manager, EDF Energy 

•    Managing risk across an uncertain high activity waste lifecycle
Shaun Robarts, Waste Management Director, Nuclear Waste Services 

•    Uranium mining waste management
Jim Hondros, Mining Industry Expert 

•    Practical application of radiation protection and low level radiological waste disposal for Canada's first licensed Class II cyclotron decommissioning project
Josip Zic, Health Physics Director, McMaster University

•    All hazards approach: Multiple hazard optimisation in a Magnox decommissioning environment
Ian Goldsmith, EHSS&Q Manager, Magnox 

•    Discussion and Q&A

•    Practical examples for the use of robotics to reduce all associated risks at nuclear operational sites.
Michal Szulik, Robotics Systems Technologist, National Nuclear Laboratory 

•    SMR challenges in the application of optimization
Geoff Hall, Lead Radiation Protection and Shielding Engineer, Rolls-Royce SMR

•    Recognizing the interconnectivity of optimisation, ALARA and sustainability
Kathryn Ambrose, Sustainability Manager, Sellafield

•    Discussion and Q&A

•    ICRP work/perspective regarding effective communication of the radiological protection system.
Thierry Schneider, Director CEPN, ICRP Committee 4 Chair 

•    IRPA views on effective communication of the radiological protection system
Hiroko Yoshida, IRPA Task Group Chair on Public Understanding 

•    Lessons learnt from Fukushima regarding effective communication and stakeholder engagement.
Taichiro Arahatra, Manager, London office TEPCO 
Mike Lavelle, Former Nuclear Operations Director

•    Discussion and Q&A

•    Good practices for communicating of radiation risks from nuclear industry – mining
Jim Hondros, Mining Industry Expert 

•    Communicating Radiation Risk at Urenco’s Capenhurst Site
David Edwards, Radiation Protection Adviser, URENCO 

•    Role of public engagement in the ALARA principle - lessons learnt from the dredging of marine sediment in the Severn estuary at Hinkley Point C
Peter Bryant, Head of Environment, Decommissioning & Radiation Safety, EDF 

•    Effective communication in new nuclear power plants
Ben Geohegan, Sizewell Director of Communications 

•    Discussion and Q&A

•    Communications of the systems of RP: Dose Optimisation – Bradwell Boiler House Deplant 
Nigel J Addis, Magnox  

•    Geological disposal of the UK’s radioactive waste – how do we demonstrate safety to different audiences?
Sarah Vines, Environmental Safety Manager, Nuclear Waste Services

•    RP communications with good examples of successes and failures from an academic and industrial perspective
Josip Zic, Health Physics Director, McMaster University

•    Challenges of public awareness in the area of very low dose
Roger Coates, Independent Consultant

•    Discussion and Q&A

•    Future developments in risk communication – How conversational artificial intelligence will change the way we talk about risks
Maren Gruss, Federal Office for Radiation Protection, BFS – Germany 

•    Areas of the system of radiological protection that can be simplified
Amir A. Bahadori, Associate Professor, Kansas State University 

•    Discussion and Q&A